After I posted three links to a video of a Dateline episode featuring a small Arizona religious group, two of the three hosts received DMCA take-down notices from the group’s lawyer and took down the video. So I pulled out my stenotype keyboard and made this quick transcript of the 40-minute program. Corrections welcome.

A friend organized a project to crochet hats for the homeless (or other cold people) this winter. She gave us a simple hat pattern to learn, and these notes are my attempt to make sense of it and explain to other beginning crocheters

I spent three months hiking the Appalachian Trail, covering 1,200 miles from Harper’s Ferry, WV, to the end of the trail on Mt. Katahdin in Maine. I hiked the entire distance in a single pair of brown Crocs (shoes). This page includes the trail reports I periodically made via email, an annotated interactive map, and other info.

My first experience being arrested and some comments on the liberal/radical divide within the Occupy Wall Street movement.

I watched Stein and Johnson debate. I liked Stein better. Here's the video of the debate from YouTube.

Remembering Saint Max on this All Saints' Day: A spooky explanation of why I don't vote from an individualist's perspective.

I'm completing my hike of the Appalachian Trail I started last summer.

The one where I use the word 'bourgeois' non-ironically.